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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth. This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death. New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities. Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you. Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.

  1. 5 hr ago

    He Kept a Signal Fire Burning - A Rabbit Saved Him

    He Kept a Signal Fire Burning - A Rabbit Saved Him Fear clenches when routine breaks: a trained 24-year-old at 4,100 feet fed a six-foot signal fire every two hours in 30 mph wind for eight days and no one saw a single wisp of smoke. A retired postal worker’s unease about a Holland Lop rabbit finally set a rescue in motion-how did a rabbit outlast a signal fire as the decisive clue? In this episode, we tell what happened to Kenneth Rafferty from November 5-11, 2019, how a client’s injury extended the season, and how a missed call and one neighbor’s worry turned into the thread between survival and being lost. How did a daily routine about feeding a rabbit become the pivotal factor that led people back to him? Person: Kenneth Rafferty Date: November 5-11, 2019 Location: Gallatin Range, Montana Event: Extended expedition after a client fall and subsequent shelter-in-place Witness: Bob Erwin, retired postal worker - Kenneth was 24 years old and worked two seasons for Tallow Creek Expeditions as expedition cook, camp manager, and designated first-aid officer. - On November 5, David Yount suffered a 15-foot leader fall and shattered his right ankle, triggering a full haul evacuation. - Kenneth lit a six-foot signal fire at 3:00 PM on November 7 and fed it every two hours through the night in 30-mile-per-hour wind. - The logging road received eight inches of wet snow the night after the client fall, making the road impassable by November 6. - Bob Erwin noticed Kenneth hadn’t texted for four days on the evening of November 9 and, worried about feeding the rabbit Cass twice daily, called the outfitter which ultimately led to questioning why Kenneth hadn’t been contacted. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    He Kept a Signal Fire Burning - A Rabbit Saved Him

  2. 1 day ago

    Eleven Feet Above a Flood: How One Man Measured His Rescue

    Eleven Feet Above a Flood: How One Man Measured His Rescue The cliff face held a record of survival: dozens of tight, deliberate marks scratched eleven feet above a canyon floor where water sat trapped by a hidden logjam. Precision measurements, a carbide-tipped multitool, and a man with twenty-two years of canyoneering experience turned a sandstone wall into a lifeline-and his marks posed one urgent question: how long could he wait before attempting to escape? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Rachel Fitzgerald found a red daypack at Copperhead Canyon trailhead to how the marks on the sandstone became the only record of where Harvey Patterson had been; what those marks measured and why they mattered is the question that kept rescuers searching. Person: Harvey Patterson Date: October 20-25, 2011 Location: Copperhead Canyon, southern Utah Age: 48 Profession: Calibration technician - At 9:47 a.m. on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, Rachel Fitzgerald found a red daypack hung above the mud line at the Copperhead Canyon trailhead. - Harvey reached a ledge eleven feet above the canyon floor at approximately 1:30 a.m, on Friday, October 21 after a flash flood hit. - The ledge where he waited was roughly six feet deep and fifteen feet wide, with water reaching within eighteen inches of its lip. - Harvey used a carbide-tipped multitool to make grouped marks two inches apart, with each mark representing one inch of water drop. - By Saturday afternoon he had eleven marks (22 inches dropped); by Sunday there were fourteen marks (28 inches dropped) before the level held due to a downstream logjam. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Eleven Feet Above a Flood: How One Man Measured His Rescue

  3. 2 days ago

    The Man Who Drank the Sea: Surviving 15 Hours Alone

    The Man Who Drank the Sea: Surviving 15 Hours Alone Cold, lonely, and fourteen kilometers from shore: one swimmer trained for three years, entered at 06:41, and vanished into a shifting subsurface eddy that left him alone in open water for fifteen hours - how did he survive with radio, bag, and a notebook that later turned up in a tree? Who carried the dry, seventy-page notebook into a juniper fourteen miles inland, and what does it reveal about the crossing? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the Playa de los Lances entry to the moment search teams looked the wrong way, recounting the equipment, people, and currents involved and asking how preparation met unpredictable ocean forces to produce one of the most methodical open-water survival stories on record. Person: Kenneth Wallace Date: September 14, 2019 (entry at 06:41) Location: Playa de los Lances to Strait of Gibraltar crossing Permit: GSC-2019-114 (Gibraltar Strait Crossing Association) Found item: 70-page olive-green notebook, interior dry, sealed in waterproof ziplock - Distance: crossing goal roughly 14 kilometers at narrowest point - Time alone: fifteen hours between being alone in the water and search teams launching in the right area - Water temperature: approximately 19-20 degrees Celsius in September - Escort: support boat captain Aurelio Mena and kayak support James Corby - Discovery: notebook found wedged in a juniper along Mirador de Cerro Blanco, 14 miles from nearest boat launch To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Man Who Drank the Sea: Surviving 15 Hours Alone

  4. 3 days ago

    She Rode Up Alone - Returned Six Days Later, Missing Wheel

    She Rode Up Alone - Returned Six Days Later, Missing Wheel Cold mountain weather can turn discipline into desperation: a fifty-two-year-old cyclist rode alone into a sealed forest route, a storm dropped the temperature 27 degrees in under 30 minutes, and six days later her expensive carbon frame was found upright in a creek-without its front wheel. What happened between the moment she fell forty feet on a scree slope and the moment the bike ended up in Coldtail Creek, alone and zip-tied mirror still attached, and how did routine choices make survival possible or nearly impossible? In this episode, we follow the timeline of Gail Keller’s solo ride to Harlan Peak, the unexpected descent, and the cascade of small failures and decisions that shaped the six days that followed. Which decisions saved her life and which concealed her absence until the bicycle turned up in the willows? Person: Gail Keller Date: mid-August 2019 Location: Harlan Peak / Coldtail Creek Occupation: Radiology technician at Briar Falls Regional Medical Center Club: Central Garnet Cycling Club - Gail left Forest Route 11 at 7:40 AM the Saturday she rode to Harlan Peak. - A 60-foot washout blocked the eastern descent; Gail turned around at 12:30 PM after reaching it. - At 2:17 PM the temperature dropped 27 degrees in under 30 minutes and rain became sleet. - Gail fell approximately 40 feet down the western slope and the bike’s front wheel separated and lodged 150 feet below. - Erin Taylor found the carbon-frame bicycle twelve feet from the bank in Coldtail Creek at 6:15 AM, with no front wheel and a zip-tied rearview mirror catching the dawn light. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    She Rode Up Alone - Returned Six Days Later, Missing Wheel

  5. 4 days ago

    Helmet on Gravel, No Tracks: How Linda Walked Back From the Impossible

    Helmet on Gravel, No Tracks: How Linda Walked Back From the Impossible A single white snowmobile helmet sat upright on a gravel bar in mid-July with its chin strap buckled and interior foam bone dry - no machine, no tracks, and no person within four miles of the nearest plowed road. That image drove a county search for four days until a rancher walked back onto her property and the impossible details started to make sense; how did she survive freezing water and a sinking snowmobile and then keep walking as if nothing had happened? In this episode, we tell the events that unfolded after a July afternoon on the Ridgetop Bench led to a submerged snowmobile and a missing rider, and we follow how the scene - a helmet on gravel with no tracks - shaped the search and the questions that followed. What really happened between the moment the Arctic Cat punched through the root mat and the moment Linda returned home? Person: Linda Hill Location: Broken Timber Ranch, Ridgeback County, Montana Date: July 11, 2009 (incident discovered July 14, 2009) Equipment: Arctic Cat "Spare" snowmobile and Yamaha "Workhorse" Search: 18 volunteers, 2 search dogs, 1 county investigator - Helmet found upright on a gravel bar with chin strap buckled and interior foam bone dry. - Scene was discovered by Glenn Simmons on July 14, 2009, who returned to finish a land survey. - Broken Timber Ranch covers 460 acres; nearest town Ceder Basin is roughly 11 miles east. - Ridgetop Bench elevation is 7,200 feet and is seven miles northwest of the ranch. - Linda was 44 years old, widowed in 2003, and had been running the ranch alone for six years. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Helmet on Gravel, No Tracks: How Linda Walked Back From the Impossible

  6. 5 days ago

    She Stopped - 112 Photos That Map a Survivor's Invisible Choices

    She Stopped - 112 Photos That Map a Survivor's Invisible Choices A solitary tripod in mud, a camera pointed inland, and 112 time-lapse photos that quietly record a woman’s methodical choices in zero visibility - could those images be the map that saved her life? This episode follows a fogbound tidal flat, precise timing, and one decision to stop that turned survival into a sequence. In this episode, we trace the events of June 12, 2019 and the deliberate actions taken on a Heron Inlet tidal flat that left a tripod aimed toward shore and a sequence of photographs that documented a plan to be found. How did one pause, a Mylar strip, and an interval setting become a rescue protocol no one expected? Person: Marie Rafferty Date: June 12, 2019 Location: Heron Inlet tidal flat near Pelican Spit Road Occupation: Laboratory technician at a water quality firm in Brackmore, Oregon Visibility: Approximately thirty feet in dense fog - She arrived at Heron Inlet at 4:50 AM and low tide occurred at 5:38 AM. - By 6:15 AM fog reduced visibility to about thirty feet while channels began flooding. - She was approximately 300 yards from the nearest solid ground when she stopped. - She set her camera to take one frame every ten seconds, creating 112 photographs. - She tied a torn strip of Mylar emergency blanket to the tripod leg and left the tripod pointed inland. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    She Stopped - 112 Photos That Map a Survivor's Invisible Choices

  7. 6 days ago

    Found Alive: The Upright Boot That Broke Every Search Theory

    Found Alive: The Upright Boot That Broke Every Search Theory Cold, high and alone: a single leather mountaineering boot was found standing upright in four inches of icy runoff, dry inside with a folded sock in the toe - and that boot became the first real clue after thirty-six hours of searching; how could someone survive a night at eleven thousand feet with a broken ankle and nearly empty food rations? What did a transposed coordinate and a lone boot reveal about who was looking - and where? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment the boot was discovered to the errors and decisions that shaped the search. You’ll hear how a personal locator beacon, a trip plan, and a single data-entry mistake sent rescuers the wrong way - and why that mattered for finding the missing climber. Person: Diane Porter Age: 54 Date first reported missing: May 13, 2019 Location of summit: Arrowhead Ridge, elevation 11,200 ft Search team size: 12-person ground team - At 6:47 AM on May 14, 2019 Gordon Richardson found a single leather mountaineering boot standing upright in ~4 inches of icy runoff. - Diane signed the summit register on May 12 at 11:04 AM and injured her right ankle roughly 90 minutes into the descent with a grade-two fibula fracture. - Diane carried approximately 2.5 days of food, a bivy sack, closed-cell foam pad, sleeping bag rated to 15°F, lighter, small pot, headlamp, whistle, and a personal locator beacon. - Diane activated her personal locator beacon at 4:30 PM on May 12; the signal was received but processed with two digits transposed, placing her on the south slope instead of the north-facing drainage. - The data-entry error was not discovered for 19 hours, during which a 12-person team searched the wrong side of Arrowhead Ridge. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Found Alive: The Upright Boot That Broke Every Search Theory

  8. 2 Aug

    Found Alive: The Paddle in a Mailbox That Saved Her

    Found Alive: The Paddle in a Mailbox That Saved Her A fourteen-year-old on a paper route found a carbon-fiber canoe paddle standing upright inside a rusted mailbox that hadn't received mail in four years - and that tiny discovery linked directly to a twenty-two-year-old woman found alive in a barn after four days missing. How did a paddle in a mailbox, a paper-route photo, and a chain of precise decisions lead rescuers to Paula Wilson when every search grid and aerial sweep missed her? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Paula Wilson's solo April canoe trip through her capsize, the gear she kept, and the decisions that kept her alive, asking which single choice in this chain mattered most to her survival. Person: Paula Wilson Date: April 2014 Location: Ardeen River corridor, Weyburn County Event: Solo canoe capsize and four-day survival Finder: Deputy Art Solis - At 6:15 a.m. on a Friday, a fourteen-year-old found a paddle inside a mailbox that had not received mail in four years. - Paula was missing for four days and was found sitting on a hay bale eating sunflower seeds 85 minutes after the mailbox photo was taken. - She launched on Monday, April 14, and capsized around 2:30 p.m. above Ardeen Bend. - Her dry bag, including phone and one water bottle, was lost to the current; she retained the paddle, PFD, hip pack, and one granola bar. - She walked along the bank using the carbon-fiber paddle as a staff despite a swollen ankle and used rationing strategies (splitting a granola bar) to survive. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Found Alive: The Paddle in a Mailbox That Saved Her
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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth. This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death. New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities. Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you. Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.

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    2026
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